Bottle-cap.



A. GALLESUN. BOTTLE GAP. APPLIOATIlDkI YILED DBO. 0. X607.

www@ Apr. 19, um.

l SHEETS-SHEET 1.

A. UALLBSON.

BOTTLE ULP. nrmcwol num nso. e. 1901.

gmo. Patented Apr. 19, w10.

l {ERSTE-SHEET 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A105 CLLLIQON. 0l' BROOKLYN, NIW You LEONOR 0l' OIE-BLIJ' T0 DINJLIIN A DBIANCI. 0l' mn, m YORK.

955,880. www 0f Wrhmh Patented' Apr. 19,1 1910. Application lied December 6, 1007. Iertal lo. 405,348.

To all whom i! it knowiinalat I, Allos Cammen, a citiaen of the United Stat, residiA in Brooklyn, Brooklyn borough, New $01k have invented a certain new and useful lm groveinert in Bottle-Cape; and I do hereby the .followin to be a full, clear, and exact-description o the invention,-such as will others skilled in the art to which it ap ins to make and use the same, refence, ing had to the accompany drawings, and to lettera of reference marked thereon,

which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to means for storing liquids of the kind in which the container.

such af a bottle, has an exterior shoulder gear its inlouth and the closure is a ca a its ower edgeion located unde saidmioulder on the ii'ttaner.

In order to distinguish my resent invention from the prior artl as I iow it, it may be well to review the essentia features of kindred closures heretofore proposed which have come under my observation. A well known type of closure employed in this connection is a cap having its flange or vertical wall crimped, tinted, corrugated or otherwise sinuously shaped so that the inbends produced in such flange or vertical wall serve as the medium directly coactin with the shoulder on the container to -loc the cap to the container, while the outbends serve as a means of purchase of a suitable implement for removing the cap. In some instances, the sinuous formation has extended from the lower ed of the flange to or nearly to, its top aa in the so-called rown cap), thus a ecting practically all of the flange. In others, the simious formation has been limited only .to substantiall portion of the cap which is direct y active in lookin copei'ation with the shou der on the container. This latter form has the advanta over the first that it will not yield so rea ily to influences, such as internal pressure, acting to destro or reduce its interlocking coaction with tio'shonlder on the container, because, having lee vertical dimension in its sinuous portion than the sinuous portion of the form first alluded to, it ixiesesses greater stoutness and rigidity in such siniioue portion; once the sinuous portion is contracted it requirosgreatcr force .to expand it than inthe case of thu forni first mentioned.

-upper portion of the flan ,from the outer edge of. the d to the plane of the exions, the inbends are' .It is to liquid storing means employing this second form of cap that my present invention' rticularly relates und it distiniislies structures resenting that orm in the following waynqn lace of the cap flange extending substantie ly strai ht from its to to its lower edge, the flange as a distinct nd where the sinuous portion thereof merges into the plain up portion, which bend is localized, i'. e., inc udes a relatively limited part of the vertical dimension of the flange, and ad'ects a relatively lar part of the circumference of the Gange, a thou h it may. be of an interrupted nature, as, or instance, where the inbends of the sinuous portion stand d-iiaight or alined with the upper tportion ofthe Bange, as shown in some of e figures of the accompanying drawings. the said -bend comprising a series of tlexions each located between the and extending substantiallv rallel wit the top of the cap; in addition, each outbond and inbend of said sinuous portion is of substantially uniform width from the edge of the inwardly to the plane of the tlexions. e

ractical advantages of a ca so constructed are the following: The cap ing placed on, and held down in proper relation to, a bottle mouth' whereby to form a Seal, the interl0ck 1 in of the siiiuous portion of the cap may be c ected by a sim e downward thrust of a suitable tool adupied to im inge against anddisplace downwardly an inwardly auch sinuous rtion with the ultimate e ect of forcing t e inbends into locki contact ulider the bottle shoulder, while outbends stand substantially vertically. The' cha in position of the sinuous plane represented by its original ition to the planewhereits outbends stan ,in cylindrical disposition is one which-has a dellnitely located moment, so that the metal in its new sha has ter rigidity and stoutness than i woul were the exin thereof not thus localized. Each outben and inbend being of substantially uniform width inwardly calculated to en ge, with uniform lockin effect, with bott e shoulders disposed higg or low relatively to the mouths of the bottles. Referring, now, to the drawings, in which Fifures l to 5 show one form of cap emhodioiiain iuy invention and Figs. 6 to 13 show portion from e another forni embodied therein, Fie-. 1 is a side elevation of the first-mention form;

Vip. 2 a top plan view; F' 3 and 4 are ai e andtop plan views o the first form without its flari portion having the sinuous formation, w ich latter, it will be understood, may be imparted to the cap after it has been drawn into tbe general shape chown in these figures; Fi 5 is a vertical sectional view of a bottle osed and sealed in accordance with niy invention, the cap involved being that shown in the first four figures: Figs. tl and 7 are side and to lan views of the other form of the ca hg. 8

.is a vertical sectional view thereo Fig. 9

au underneath v-iew; Fig. 10 a vertical sectional view of a bottle eealed and closed in accordance with niy invention and involving u cap of the two forms above mentioned; and. l\`i ll, 1Q and t3 are vertical sectional .viewsilluetrating. progressively, the manner in which the cap and bottlel are assembled iu clo`in; r relation to cach other.

cap like that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, having the top wall u. and de .nding flange li, thc lower edge portion c o which is flarin;r and stands .substantially at ri ht iin les to thc flange l, (which is substantially p ain and c vliiulrit-.all may, either during or after lluoperation of dra wingjt into shape. have its flaring edge portion c made sinuons, thus producing what are. herein designated the out-bends and in-bends f projecting, respectively, u i and down in the initial form of the cap. (lr. refcrrin to Figs. 6 to 13, instead of the flaring ge iortion c rojcctiui.r at u right angle to t c flanc) of the cap, it may stand somewhat inclined downwardly: .so far asthe sinuous formation of the flaring portion e is concerned. it should lauuderstmal that there is no difference in the forni shown in Figs. (l to 13 Iver the form shown in ["i 1 to 5 except that` since the incline of tic flaring edge portion c in the former case results in the reduction of its diameter, the displacement. of' the metal involved in auch flaring poi'- tion manifests itself in the relative dce )eniug of the iii-heads and heighteningw the out-honda. so that the. sinnons fo"nation is more marked or acntt.. ln short, if the edge-portion c of thc cap shown in Figs. l to 5 were drawn downwardly to assume thel incline represented in the edgc- )ortion of the rap shown iu l"igs.-6 to 13. its sinuous formation would be substantially identical to that howu in Figs. tl to f3. The advaumge of' tluform shown in Figs. l to 5 over that `hown in l"ig.-:. ti to 18 is that it. gi es the working tool a better initial hear- .v ing und that it acccntnates the angle exist'- im.r between the mlge|mrtion and the flan c l of tlurap and more sharply localizes the plane of flexing.

ln Figs'. t3 to J the outbends and inbends are :dl relatively wide; this increases the resilience of the snuous rtion of the cap, reducing the danger of racturing the bott e head. and at the saine time affords a broad contact for elch inbend with the bottle shoulder,u having for its effect to au ent the grip of the cap onthe bottle head while permitting the cap "to be removed with renter facility than would be the case if t e inbends were .latively narrow.

Referrin to Figs. '11 to 13, in the operation of closing and scaling a bottle by means of my improved ca i, the cap (which it will lie understood has t ie usual cork lining disk or the like f/ and paper disk h inte between the top wa l a of the cap an said cork disk) being placed on the mouth of the bottle i in the position shown in Fig. 11, may be pressed down againstthe same, to the extent necessary to insure the pro r scaling contact. by a .suitable plunger 's bringsthe flaring alpe-portion c of t ie cap down to about thc i une of the annular exterior shoulder l.: o the bottle. 'Ihereu i, a tool which may be cylindrical in orm and is adapted to slip over the upper part of the ca i and bear against its edge-portion c, is ma e to effect a downward thrust. The result of this is that the sinuous a alge-portion c is. as to every radial part' thereof, displaced about an annular axis which is located definitely where the Haring portion merg into the up part of the flan l'e b, leaving the hi of the outben s e substantially nlm with the axe b while the inbends are moved in under e shoulder k of the bottle. The cap is thus made to change its forni entirely, and in place of havin 'a flarin edge- '011, it now has, in side elevation, a cylindrical forni; moreover. the u per or plain part of the flange. is practically uninvolved in the action of the applying tool, which verts itself only upon the smuous'edge-portion.

Again 'in place of surfaces more or lesa remote. from the edge of the fla on the 1nside. thereof being brought to ar against the under .side of the shoulder lr, it is rather the edge-portions of the iii-bends f which engage the shoulder. As a result of t and also of the fact that the ed -portion 0 the flange is alone moved in eiiting locking contact with the shoulder on the bottle,

the cap is adapted to u greater range of variations in theI diameter of locking shoulders than is pos-sible in other bottle caps of the' general class in t aeration. Furthermore, the hold or grip of the cap on the bottle. is more secure and thus capable of standing greater internal pressures. .It will bc iuiderstaul that the. out-laends, being loft `standin as alined portions of the flange in the. nal result of the Operation of the tool 1', then serve as a means of purchase for an opening implement.

. ing substantial Havin thus full described my invention, what I c aim and c esire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a closure 'for containers consisting of a cap havin the lower portion of its flange simious in orm and havi tlexions located between said lower portion and the upper portion of the flange and each above an ontbend of the sinuous lower rt-on, each flexion extenglparallel with the top of the ca and each in d of said sinuous portion being of substantially uniform widti from the outer edge of the latter to the horizontal plane represented by said tlexions, substantially as described.

2. Aa an article of manufacture, a closure for containers consisting of a cap having the lower portion of its flange sinuous in form and havin tlexions located between said lower portion and the upper portion of the tange and each above an outbend of the sinuous lower lportion, each flexion extending substantie y parallel with the top of the cap and each inbend of said sinuoue portion bein rela-tively wide and of substantially un orm width from the outer edge of the latter t the horizontal )lane represented by said tiexions, subetantia y as described.

In testimony, that 1 claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand thinl 2nd lay of Deer. 1907.

' AMUS CALLESUN. Witnesses:

W. F. Hoax, W. l). C. Bocos. 

